English
Related papers

Related papers: Exploring Plasma Heating in the Current Sheet Regi…

200 papers

The opening-up of the magnetic field during solar eruptive events is often accompanied by a dimming of the local coronal emission. From observations of filament eruptions recorded with the Extreme-Ultraviolet Imager on STEREO during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Eva Robbrecht , Yi-Ming Wang

Numerical simulations and experimental results have shown that current sheets formation in space plasmas can be associated with enhanced vorticity. Also, in simulations the generation of such structures is associated with strong plasma…

The solar coronal heating is a longstanding mystery in astrophysics. Considering that the solar magnetic field is spatially inhomogeneous with considerable magnetic gradient from solar surface to the corona, this work proposes a magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Baolin Tan

Twisted magnetic fields should be ubiquitous in flare-producing active regions where the magnetic fields are strongly non-potential. It has been shown that reconnection in helical magnetic coronal loops results in plasma heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 R. F. Pinto , M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , N. Vilmer

Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Robert Cameron , Hardi Peter , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

We investigate the triggering mechanisms of plasma eruptions in the solar atmosphere due to interactions between emerging flux and coronal arcade fields by using two-dimensional MHD simulations. We perform parameter surveys with respect to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Kaneko , T. Yokoyama

We perform MHD modeling of a single bright coronal loop to include the interaction with a non-uniform magnetic field. The field is stressed by random footpoint rotation in the central region and its energy is dissipated into heating by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 F. Reale , S. Orlando , M. Guarrasi , A. Mignone , G. Peres , A. W. Hood , E. R. Priest

We report on the structure and evolution of a current sheet that formed in the wake of an eruptive X8.3 flare observed at the west limb of the Sun on September 10, 2017. Using observations from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on Hinode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Jeffrey W. Reep , Nicholas A. Crump , George A. Doschek

Magnetic flux emergence from the solar interior to the atmosphere is believed to be a key process of formation of solar active regions and driving solar eruptions. Due to the limited capability of observation, the flux emergence process is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Zhipeng Liu , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code, which follows the evolution of the active region 11640 over 4 days starting from 2012 December 30 at 12:00 UT and reproduces many key coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Feng Chen

Recent Solar Dynamic Observatory observations reveal that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) consist of a multi-temperature structure: a hot flux rope and a cool leading front (LF). The flux rope first appears as a twisted hot channel in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 X. Cheng , J. Zhang , D. M. Ding , Y. Liu , W. Poomvises

Combined tearing-thermal evolution plays an important role in the disruption of current sheets, and formation of cool condensations within the solar atmosphere. However, this has received limited attention to date. We numerically explore a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 Samrat Sen , Jack Jenkins , Rony Keppens

Emerging dimming occurs in isolated solar active regions (ARs) during the early stages of magnetic flux emergence. Observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, it features a rapid decrease in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) emission in the 171…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Anna V. Payne , Xudong Sun

In this paper we investigate, by means of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the impact of temperature-dependent resistivity and thermal conduction on the development of plasmoid instabilities in reconnecting current sheets in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-13 Lei Ni , Ilia I. Roussev , Jun Lin , Udo Ziegler

A full 3-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation is conducted to investigate the thermal responses of a coronal loop to the dynamic dissipation processes of MHD waves. When the foot points of the loop are randomly and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Takuma Matsumoto

We present numerical simulations in 3D settings where coronal rain phenomena take place in a magnetic configuration of a quadrupolar arcade system. Our simulation is a magnetohydrodynamic simulation including anisotropic thermal conduction,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. P. Moschou , R. Keppens , C. Xia , X. Fang

Shocks are often invoked as heating mechanisms in astrophysical systems, with both adiabatic compression and dissipative heating that leading to temperature increases. Whilst shocks are reasonably well understood for ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-03 Ben Snow

We report here on the determination of plasma physical parameters across a shock driven by a Coronal Mass Ejection using White Light (WL) coronagraphic images and Radio Dynamic Spectra (RDS). The event analyzed here is the spectacular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Susino , A. Bemporad , S. Mancuso

EUV imaging observations from several space missions (SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and SDO/AIA) have revealed a presence of propagating intensity disturbances in solar coronal loops. These disturbances are typically interpreted as slow magnetoacoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Elena Provornikova , Leon Ofman , Tongjiang Wang

Self-organization in continuous systems is associated with dissipative processes. In particular, for magnetized plasmas, it is known as magnetic relaxation, where the magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy of flow through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Satyam Agarwal , Ramit Bhattacharyya , Shangbin Yang